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( = ) This group embraces all native species and they are shadeand moisture loving. Although they lift up their tall flower spikes tothe bright sun, they like a cool root run at all times. In a cool northcorner, or by lake or stream or in any moist hollow, about or near thegarden, these lilies are a host in themselves wherewith to make a sum-mer picture.

(*) Lilies marked in this manner are stem-rooting. Thereforethey can be transplanted in the spring.

TABLE OF LILIES

Plate XL. In solving the difficult planting problems on exposed lake-fronts and river-fronts there is no plant, in thelimited list of adaptable types, to excel the beach-plum. (See page 187, group XXV-B)

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